WILLS AND ESTATE PLANNING

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CR. AMANYA ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS

CRAA's Mission

To provide comprehensive solutions to clients by understanding the client’s business and Instructions.

Why Choose CRAA's Lawyers?

1. Free initial consultation. 2. Flexible appointment availability (Usually in less than 24-Hours). 3. Deliver effective solutions in time equipped with international experience and able to work with teams in different jurisdictions. 4. Agressive advocates seeking for justice for our clients. 5. Responsive & very friendly staff. 6. Detailed knowledge of the local court systems. laws and policies.

CRAA’s Promise To Clients

We endeavour to understand your business and instructions, avail you a top notch team at your service and work with you to attain the highest quality and most effective solution.

PRACTICE AREAS

Wills and Estate Planning

CRAA works with you as you put pen to paper your wishes for your business, family and investments in case of incapacitation and after you are gone. We help you to consider the use of Wills, Insurance and Trusts and handle a variety of estate planning matters (planning for the distribution of your property at your death). Our estate planning services include; drafting of Wills, Spousal and Children’s trusts, Insurance Trusts, Revocable Living Trusts, Irrevocable Trusts, Advance Medical Directives and power of Attorney (General, Special & Medical).

Energy and Mining

CRAA advises some of the largest and most established international companies engaged in renewable and non renewable energy sectors that are participating in and/or entering the Ugandan market. Besides the Company advisory services, specific to the sector services include processing exploration and exploitation licenses, mining leases, operation of concessions, assignment of existing rights and handling environmental impact assessments and environmental claims.

Employment and Pensions

We offer our local and foreign clients exquisite employment and immigration solutions. We are always on hand to assist foreigners establish businesses, live and work in Uganda. We process entry permits, work permits, dependents’ passes and certificates of residence. CRAA assists in recovery of security bond deposits from the immigration department when the holders of the entry permits are leaving the country and also helps to deal with and recover any money contributed to the National Social Security Fund. CRAA offers employment law advice to its clients and assists in preparation and review of employment contracts, compliance with the employment regulations, provides redundancy and restructuring services, represents clients in the industrial court & liases with labour officers.

Transport & Infrastructure

This is a top priority sector in Uganda that includes upgrading of the road network, revitalizing the railway transport and expanding the air transport infrastructure. CRAA represents some of the largest foreign and local companies which have contracts with the Government through the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to construct and upgrade the road network in Uganda. CRAA services here under include advice on procurement laws and procedures, liaising with regulatory and licensing authorities, compensation of land owners, importation of equipment, staffing issues among others. We are guided by our knowledge of FIDIC Conditions of Contract for the Construction Industry worldwide.

Corporate & Commercial

We guide both local and foreign clients through the maze of registration and establishment of legal entities including companies, multinationals, non-governmental organizations and trusts. CRAA provides company secretarial services and acts as a representative office for several local and foreign companies. Our corporate and commercial practice largely involves advising on corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions, tax requirements and compliance, winding up and insolvency. CRAA advises on all types of commercial contracts including preparing and reviewing contracts to cover all aspects of appropriate structuring, regulatory and licensing compliance, real estate, information, communication, technology and intellectual property law. CRAA handles intellectual property matters including trademarks, copyright and patent licensing, protection, enforcement, transfer and exploitation.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

CRAA has a solid background in handling arbitration and litigation cases. We combine our deep experience with vast industry knowledge and bring creativity to each and every assignment relentlessly protecting our clients’ interests. CRAA is well versed with all forms of dispute resolution including arbitration, mediation and litigation and have handled many high profile and landmark cases. We represent our clients in commercial law centered disputes, taxation, land and employment disputes, election and constitutional petitions and in local and international arbitration. We can ably represent at all levels of the dispute before including tribunals, regulatory authorities, courts of law and boards.

Wills and Estate Planning

CRAA works with you as you put pen to paper your wishes for your business, family and investments in case of incapacitation and after you are gone. We help you to consider the use of Wills, Insurance and Trusts and handle a variety of estate planning matters (planning for the distribution of your property at your death). Our estate planning services include; drafting of Wills, Spousal and Children’s trusts, Insurance Trusts, Revocable Living Trusts, Irrevocable Trusts, Advance Medical Directives and power of Attorney (General, Special & Medical).

Immigration

We offer our local and foreign clients exquisite employment and immigration solutions. We are always on hand to assist foreigners establish businesses, live and work in Uganda. We process entry permits, work permits, dependents’ passes and certificates of residence. CRAA assists in recovery of security bond deposits from the immigration department when the holders of the entry permits are leaving the country and also helps to deal with and recover any money contributed to the National Social Security Fund. CRAA offers employment law advice to its clients and assists in preparation and review of employment contracts, compliance with the employment regulations, provides redundancy and restructuring services, represents clients in the industrial court & liases with labour officers.

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In the spirit of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, CRAA has established one of the leading law firms in Uganda pro bono programs. Our pro bono commitment is key to who we are and is the reason why many of our lawyers in uganda have made their professional home here. We believe that all lawyers in Uganda have a moral obligation to do pro bono work, and we strive to be the best there is. Our commitment to pro bono is as broad as it is deep. We have no single “signature” project—our program is as diverse as the interests of our legal team and the needs of justice. We have a heavy load of “impact” cases. Our impact cases involve the death penalty, political asylum, election reform, criminalization of speech, media freedom and religious freedom, among many other areas.

This work sometimes involves representing unpopular clients whose cases can be the toughest ones our firm handles. But these are often the most meaningful cases our lawyers in uganda ever handle.

In addition to handling high-profile cases, we represent many disadvantaged individuals, such as; families facing wrongful eviction from real estate property or land, women who have been the victims of brutal domestic violence, wives who have been denied their inheritance rights on the death of a spouse, journalists facing court for stories they have written. People who have been wrongfully denied due legal process through long prison remands without conviction.

Our work covers the full range of our lawyers’ skills, including transactional work and counseling for non-profits and non-governmental organizations.

We encourage our lawyers in Uganda to devote 15% of their time to pro bono work, and we make clear to all lawyers in Uganda that we expect them to do this work. For we believe, in the words of Robert Kennedy, that while “few may have the greatness to bend history itself” each time an individual “stands up for an ideal, or works to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And those ripples, crossing each other from a million centers of energy and daring, build a current that can sweep done the mightiest walls of resistance and oppression.”

CRAA ACADEMY

Besides the legal services in Uganda offered as the leading amongst law firms in Uganda, our firm also offers training services conducted through our training school.
The firm is affiliated with C.R. Amanya Academy which is a training academy that offers specialized courses in legal, governance, legislative, economic and management subjects. The Academy is manned by a firm department that is charged with the responsibility of conducting legal clinics for our Ugandan community. At CRAA Academy, our vision is to see that all investors in the different industrial sectors are equipped with the legal information to help them succeed in their industries. The academy conducts programs annually and also prepares tailor made courses at the request of different organisations

Clients of C.R. Amanya Advocates and Solicitors in Uganda are entitled to a free training course and to a discount on other courses